This month I'm
pleased to bring you interviews with six young artists, all with excellent
new CDs. And all, with the exception of Jeff Heiskell, are sophomore
releases. In the first part you'll hear from Christopher Dallman and
Mike Rickard, and in Part 2 from Brett Every and Dylan Rice. And Part
3 brings us Richard Cortez and Jeff Heiskell (solo artist and former
front man of The Judybats). Travelling the world, that's from Los Angeles
to Atlanta to Sydney to Chicago to Ft Lauderdale to Knoxville...accompanied
by over 3 hours of great music.

"Some people
have taken it as me
making fun of Britney Spears and
it's really not that at all. It's some
sort of twisted homage, with a lot
of love and respect."

"I think
overall I think the theme of
the entire CD is really about living
life in the moment and you can't
do it by sitting on your duff."

"I describe
[my style] a bit like Norah
Jones drinking with Tom Waits in
some smoky bar somewhere with
Dusty Springfield on the jukebox,
or something like that."

"My music
is a cross between
nostalgic Brit-pop from the 80's and
folk Americana, so it's sort of like if
the Cowboy Junkies had a love
child with Morrissey maybe."

"Sleeping
With Strangers" gets a
really great response from people.
Even in the most crowded of bars
people get really quiet, because I think
that even the three words put together
are very taboo, so they kind of get very
quiet and interested in what I'm
about to say."